LANSDALE — A 16-year-old homeless El Salvadoran citizen has been arrested and charged as an adult with the attempted knifepoint rape of a 25-year-old Lansdale woman at a borough park on Monday afternoon, police said Tuesday.

Herson Guardado is behind bars at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $100,000 cash bail, charged with attempted rape and attempted sexual assault — both felonies — as well eight other criminal offenses including unlawful restraint, possessing an instrument of crime, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, possession of marijuana and harassment, police said.

At approximately 4:40 p.m. on Monday, officers were dispatched to Stony Creek Park on East Hancock Street for a report of an armed person.

There, police said, they spoke with a woman who said that while at the park with her three young children, she saw a man in the park, and as she was putting her children in her car, the man — wearing a blue mask — approached her from behind, placed one arm around her neck and stuck what she believed to be a knife in her side.

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As he began to force the woman away from her car and toward a wooded area, he reportedly said to the woman, “You want sex.”

The woman managed to escape the man’s grasp and saw him run off toward the woods, police said.

As Lansdale officers searched the area, a Montgomery Township Police K-9 unit responded to the scene and began to track the suspect in the direction of Upper Gwynedd Township, according to police.

An Upper Gwynedd officer then spotted an individual matching the description of the suspect near the 500 block of Church Road, police said, and another Upper Gwynedd officer was able to detain the suspect until the victim could make a positive identification of her attacker.

During a search of the suspect, officers found a knife, a small amount of marijuana and a pipe in his possession, police said, and he was identified as Guardado.

The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office approved the decision to charge Guardado as an adult based on his age and his use of a deadly weapon in the attempted rape, Lansdale police said.

Guardado was arraigned before District Judge Patricia Zaffarano of Ambler Monday and committed to the county correctional facility.

He is due before District Judge Harold Borek on Jan. 27 for a preliminary hearing.